02/04

i got no strength left. its been a week (or two, i dont even remember) back and forth around the same, going crazy about the program, then the communications, then the heights... office timetible with its correspondent breaks (not many), sleep from 4am to 10 am. every single day. otherwise, class.

i will be concise and i dont give a fuck about explaining my previous stages (maybe another day.. theyre interesting)

CONCEPT
- parasiting: people (blood), cores (organs), structure (bones), area (skin). parasiting-complementing program. parasiting supplies -water, electricity.

HOW IT WORKS
- highway: constant flow of people, work, info. every building has an entrance to the highway. the walking/pass-by experience.

- levels: 17th floor program pathway, 13th floor service pathway

- nodes: media exchange terminals. catalyze all fluxes and manifest information.

- program: bars-lounge-disco, cinema-park, thermes, catering, tech supplies, mass production office items

PHYSICALIZATION
- structure (!!!): huge problem.
generally speaking itd be pathways inside huge trusses going all across on top of buildings, from one building to another etc. the space gets bigger (association with existing roof shape) when it arrives to nodes and program.
supposed to use a) existing communication cores b) roofs and eventually existing structural system.
possible solution = reinforce pilars and go down to make my own foundations + big truss to support my structure independently.


- looks: massive/perceivable outside and open inside. boxes (program) linked by bridges. possibility of mirror glass or traslucent plastic ¿? - this way lighter structure.


the HUGEST problem, apart from that of the structure, is the area. i have like 5 times my area or more (54200).
ill work, then, on keeping the program to one floor and making the paths much thinner (not totally adjusted to the shape of the roof, then)
this would imply having two big snakes connected every once in a while vertically
im thinking having some height flexibility coz its gonna be so BORING if i do it all on one floor (even though its easier).


think of
big airports that develop horizontally and shortcuts
elevator system for the tallest skyscrapers and how it can be applied horizontally
shopping streets and their "sub shopping themes"
see plans of train stations - euralille
see plans of cinemas / auditoriums
see roman thermes (and eventually vals)
images of ovnis
where the f***k are bathrooms and cores usually in towers? together? in the middle?


and yeah, im so fucking tired, i wanna go to sleep and not work anymore and i STILL DONT KNOW IF A HAVE A BEAMER TOMORROW!!!!




fuck them.